U.S. chaplains vetted by Muslim who condemns "Jewish trickery"

 BY BOB UNRUH, WORLDNETDAILY— A man portrayed as a prominent Islamic scholar who has run a program to vet Muslim chaplains for the U.S. military has written an anti-Semitic column that condemns Jews for trying to make the rest of the world “subvervient” and explaining that he is able to see this “trickery” because of…

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Pro-Palestinian activists plan week of protests in W. Bank

BY YAAKOV LAPPIN AND TOVAH LAZAROFF, JPOST— Pro-Palestinian activists plan to hold protest events across the West Bank this week, starting in the Aida refugee camp north of Bethlehem on Sunday and ending in Jerusalem on Friday. It’s the second phase of the “Welcome to Palestine” campaign, in which foreign activists flew to Ben-Gurion Airport…

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Spot Report: The Jewish Vote

Think on this! “The kingdom of God is not a matter of talk but of power.” (I Corinthians 4:20) Pray this! Gracious Father, so much of what we hear from the politicians and pundits and even preachers is nothing more than talk. Talk is cheap. Be pleased to raise up men and women who are empowered by…

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Walking in Jesus's Footsteps along the Galilee's Gospel Trail

BY ELISA MOED, TRAVELUJAH— Eduward has been in Israel for three months, living in Jerusalem and volunteering for the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem, before he made his first trip to the Galilee. Like many tourists, the Galilee was not at the top of Eduward’s list of things to do. However, after an invitation to walk…

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PA to Apply to Security Council Next Week for UN Membership

BY DEBKA STAFFERS— On Wednesday, July 6, the Palestinian Authority notified the Obama administration that early next week it would file with the UN Security Council a request for admission to the United Nations as a full member recognized as an independent state within the 1967 borders. But debkafile’s Washington sources report the US had…

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Syria's rival hegemons

BY CAROLINE GLICK, JPOST— Last Saturday Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave Hizbullah-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati the political equivalent of a public thrashing. Last Thursday Mikati gave a speech in which he tried to project an image of a leader of a government that has not abandoned the Western world completely. Mikati gave the…

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B'tayavon: Stuffed tomatoes

*The word for tomato in Hebrew is “Agvania.” The root of the word is to love or desire. Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew, did not like this word selection for tomato. He thought it was too sensual and insisted on the more Semitic word for tomato, “badura.” However, in a rare occurrence Ben-Yehuda did…

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Stuffed tomatoes

*The word for tomato in Hebrew is “Agvania.”  The root of the word is to love or desire.  Ben-Yehuda, the father of modern Hebrew, did not like this word selection for tomato.  He thought it was too sensual and insisted on the more Semitic word for tomato, “badura.”  However, in a rare occurrence Ben-Yehuda did not win the linguistic battle.  People in…

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A Goliath in the Church

BY PAUL WILKINSON, JPOST— “The Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah: ‘Have you not observed that these people are saying, “The Lord has rejected the two clans that He chose”? Thus they have despised My people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight’” (Jeremiah 33:23-24). One man who has consistently…

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Dismantle the Iranian Auschwitz

BY MICHAEL FREUND, JPOST— With the world riveted by protests in Syria and the uprising in Libya, everyone seems to have forgotten the most important issue: Iran’s breathless pursuit of nuclear weapons. But the dearth of attention in no way reflects a lessening of the threat, as the ayatollahs march steadily closer to developing an…

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The 'two-state solution' is passé

BY AARON HECHT, JPOST— The “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has become almost universally accepted as the only way to bring the prolonged struggle between Israel and its Arab neighbors to an end. Those who hold this view – in Europe, the US and even in Israel – dismiss anyone who disagrees with it…

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After Flotilla, Israel Prepares for Pro-Arab Fly In

BY ELAD BENARI, ARUTZ7— As the planned Freedom Flotilla 2 continues to fizzle, Israel is preparing for another provocation, this time in the form of a planned ‘fly in’ to Ben Gurion Airport by pro-Arab activists. The planned aerial demonstration was first reported by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) last month. ITIC had…

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Shocking Report of Norway's Anti-Semitism

BY DR. MANFRED GERSTENFELD, ARUTZ 7—  In the past few years, foreign interest in the widespread anti-Israelism among the Norwegian elite and the corresponding anti-Semitism in Norwegian society have increased. Up until last month, there were no official statistics to back this information up. This enabled the Norwegian government and media to deny the hate-inciting reality,…

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The economic case for supporting Israel

BY GEORGE GILDER, WALL STREET JOURNAL— America’s enemies understand deeply and intuitively that no U.S. goals or resources in the Middle East are remotely as important as Israel. Why don’t we? Israel cruised through the recent global slump with scarcely a down quarter and no deficit or stimulus package. It is steadily increasing its global…

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Israel's new energy

BY LAWRENCE SOLOMON—  In the first 25 years after Israel’s founding in 1948, it was repeatedly attacked by the large armies of its Arab neighbours. Each time, Israel prevailed on the battlefield, only to have its victories rolled back by Western powers who feared losing access to Arab oilfields. The fear was and is legitimate…

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